A wider gap would prompt the government to sell more debt, weighing on the price of current Treasuries, analysts said.
By the time the women's tournament starts Saturday, the men will have advanced to the second round, opening a wider gap in interest and appeal.
We have a wider gap between the haves and have-nots than any of us have known in our life time," he said.
Two new polls suggest a lead of three to four parliamentary seats for the Zionist Union, with internal polling from both parties indicating a wider gap.
But, the RCN claims, vacancy rates show a much wider gap between the number of staff in post and the number needed to ensure high-quality patient care.
Another figure that NBC shared with reporters later in the afternoon, that showed a somewhat wider gap, was not backed up by Nielsen.
Altmann said the government needed to "redraw the pensions landscape" to avoid creating a wider gap between haves and have-nots in retirement than already exists among people of working age.
Exit polls by Mori indicated the proposal to revise the constitution was defeated by 51%to49%9% while an Ipsos poll had a slightly wider gap of 52.3% to 47.7%.
Operating under the strictures of McCain-Feingold this year, the Republican Party has enjoyed a 2-to-1 fund-raising edge over the Democrats, a wider gap than in the recent past.
"States with ineffective and incompetent governance not only will fail to benefit from globalization," it says, "but in some instances will spawn conflicts at home and abroad, ensuring an even wider gap between regional winners and losers that exists today".
Instead, the wider gap seems to be due mostly to technological advance, which has boosted the productivity and wages mainly of the better educated while leaving the least educated lagging.
